It's emerged that a British medical student from King's Lynn may have travelled to Syria to work in a hospital caring for Islamic State fighters.

Lena Mamoun Abdelgadir was one of a number of young people studying medicine in Sudan, from where she was deployed to a Syrian hospital in an area controlled by IS.

She is a former pupil of Wisbech Grammar School in Cambridgeshire and her father works as a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in King's Lynn.

Wisbech Grammar School, Cambridgeshire Credit: ITV News Anglia

"She left here in 2011 with a string of A stars and As, but she was a typical Wisbech Grammar pupil, she was involved in academic work, but also sports, she represented the student voice, the student council and she just really was a member of our community."

– Chris Staley, Headteacehr, Wisbeh Grammar school

Lena is among a number of others to have disappeared Credit: PA Images

"A local girl from West Norfolk, went to local schools, was sent off by her parents to further her education, but has obviously been radicalised."

An inquest into the death of Wisbech pensioner Una Crown will resume despite her killer not being found.
The 86 year-old was repeatedly stabbed before her body was set on fire at her bungalow two years ago.
Police were criticised for not declaring her death as suspicious immediately and failing to preserve the crime scene. The inquest will restart at the end of March.

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The 19-year-old is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn. Credit: PA Images

Police are warning people against taking so-called legal highs after a teenager needed hospital treatment.

The 19-year-old took a substance he had bought at a shop in Wisbech on Wednesday and was left unconscious. The ambulance service was called and he was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.

His condition was not life threatening and he is recovering in hospital today but officers are warning about the dangers of taking drugs known as new psychoactive substances (NPS).

It is not known exactly what substance the teenager consumed but officers are investigating where it originated and have seized a batch of NPSs.

These substances can be highly dangerous and people risk their life by taking them. Thankfully, this teenager's condition was not life-threatening condition, however, we would strongly urge people not to consume drugs of this type as they are not tested or approved in any way.

– DI David Murphy

Although they are known as legal highs, the name is misleading because some of the substances contain illegal drugs.

Police still hunting the killer of a widow from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire whose body was set on fire two years ago, have been criticised by their own force.

86-year-old Una Crown was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and chest before her body was left burning at her bungalow on Magazine Lane.

Officers first declared her death as unexplained and only later realised she had been brutally murdered.

An internal probe has now revealed they also failed to preserve the scene and did not declare the death as suspicious immediately.

Una Crown's body was left burning at her bungalow on Magazine Lane. Credit: ITV News Anglia

"After receiving two complaints regarding the investigation into the murder of Una Crown, a review of the actions taken by officers was carried out by the force professional standards department.

The investigator considered the set of circumstances with which the officers were presented was sufficiently unusual, particularly once the injuries to Mrs Crown's neck were found, and they should have erred on the side of caution and either declared the death suspicious or sought further guidance.

The investigator therefore came to the conclusion that the officers breached the standards of professional behaviour.

However the investigator did not consider the conduct of the officers in question to be deliberately neglectful, nor did he consider the officers' actions fell so far short of the standards of professional behaviour that they needed to be addressed by way of formal sanctions.

Recommendations from the investigator have been made to the force to ensure training is provided to all relevant officers and staff to prevent such actions from being made again."